Catherine Breillat Quotes
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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I love what I do.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they’ll find a means to be happy.
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I doubt that even if this evidence could be upgraded to 100 per cent it would persuade the sort of people who go on self-appointed missions of mediation to Baghdad. These people further fail to see that governments now have a further responsibility to their citizens - namely to see that something is done to prevent future assaults on civilisation.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
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I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.
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I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
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I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.
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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
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It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.
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If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
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It was not an adventure; it was my life.
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You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
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The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
